SR, you're probably right about the drinks explains why the dunmer are so bitter

Today Ravos travelled from Windhelm to Whiterun via the Nightgate inn. Along the way he cleared Uttering Hills Cave and killed a dragon. Quiet journey really...

This is what happened next: Fanfic thread

Genevieve went to Mzinchaleft to get Grimsever back for Mjoll. She's a pure mage, so the magic-resistant dwemer automatons give her real problems. So I taught her to hulk out, and she still died.

After a couple of tweaks to the script to put back some of the balance, she just survived battling two spheres at once in Hulk form, while she can only manage one (barely!) as herself. The final Centurion encounter was only possible by running around until she could grab the sword and escape. She might have been able to take him on in Hulk form, but it's a once-a-day power, and she'd used it already.

I'll probably have her forget that spell and get it again legitimately when I have a quest for that.

Ravos and Erik continued their journey north, venturing through Hjaamarch and into the Pale. On the way they passed High Gate ruins and despite already carrying lots of loot and almost having run out of food they decided to head inside.

Upon entering the ruins they were rather surprised to see dead (properly this time) draugr. Soon the duo came across Anska. Apparently there was some scroll important to her family within the tomb but she needed some help getting to it. The ruins were the known resting place of the dragon priest Vokun — a force to be reckoned with — and she wasn't comfortable with her chances in beating him alone. Naturally Ravos and Erik were quick to offer their assistance knowing that all the dungeon's loot would be theirs.

Something very strange happened when they had almost reached the end of the dungeon though. Erik suddenly attacked and killed Anska for no obvious reason. I simply RP'd she died fighting the draugr but it was still a bit weird...

After clearing the dungeon and obtaining some nice loot (including a dragon priest mask) Ravos and Erik left for Dawnstar, stopping on the way at to slay a dragon, trade with the imperial quartermaster and search the wreck of the Brinehammer. There now in Dawnstar where they'll rest up for bht before heading out again.

Hmm... friendly fire?

Something like that. She didn't fight back at all, it was pretty weird

11th of Morning Star, 4e 202

The bandits of Snowpoint Beacon had offered little adversary to Ravos and Erik the Slayer. The adventurers, frozen and fatigued from a hard day of travelling, stumbled upon the tower while looking for shelter. Ravos gave the outlaws ample time to prove their goodwill, opting to confront them openly rather than use his usual stealth tactics, however they made the unwise choice of greeting him with weapons drawn.


The first had fallen before she could raise her shield, a single glass shaft enough to end her miserable existence. The second, a hulking redguard clad in fur-lined nordic steel had provided only slightly more of a challenge, withstanding two of Ravos’ arrows before Erik charged in, seemingly from nowhere, and gave some substance to his title.


After the fight, if it could be called that, the adventuring duo went about preparing the tower for the night. They hauled the brigand’s bodies to the edge of the tower and pushed them over the crenelations and lay out their bedrolls as far away from the blood as possible. Erik tended to the fire that was roaring in the ancient brazier that adorned the tower’s roof while Ravos was busy transferring the magical energy of a soul gem into his bow.


The tower provided the perfect view of the surrounding area — no doubt the intention of whichever ancient general had it constructed. From its top Ravos could see out almost as far as Hjaalmarch. It was this view that allowed him to see just how short a distance he and Erik had travelled in a day. Nightcaller Temple was still well within sight and only the formation of the land prevented him from seeing Dawnstar itself. At this rate they would be hard pressed to reach Winterhold in two days*. Still, the worst of the snow seemed to be behind them and they had plenty of provisions to last them the journey.


Wary from their day of travel the adventurers ate a simple meal of salted beef, bread and snowberries and went straight to sleep, neither of them taking watch. The road ahead of them would prove to be a worthy challenge, but for now Ravos dreamt of home — a place quite unlike the Pale.


* Ravos has some MQ business up on High Hrothgar that he hopes to attend to by the 21st of Morning Star. This leaves him ten days to get some adventuring done up north then head home to Riften to restock. He's trying to keep to this schedule because he likes organisation

Mjoll did that in my last game. Anska tends to use AoE spells that hit everyone, and followers get a bit annoyed by that. On all my previous run-throughs, I've looked at her armor, and decided to leave her safely behind. Probably the best choice.

Finally a fanfic update: Eilidh's Fanfic Thread

Today Ravos had a really weird dragon encounter....

He was hunting some deer somwhere on the road between Whiterun and Rorikstead with Erik. He's left his horse in Whiterun specifically so he could do some hunting (among other things) to stretch his legs. Anyway he's just shot a deer and runs over to take it's pelt and meat when he hears a giant's call from behind him. He turns to see a giant being dropped by an apparently mute elder dragon. The dragon leaves the dead giant right in the middle of the road and then circles above for a while, still making no noise. Ravos tries to initiate a fight by shouting at the dragon but it just flies off into the distance, without making a sound. It's not the first time I've seen a dragon to then have it fly off without a fight but it is the first mute dragon I've come across

Anyway, weird dragon encounters aside, Ravos is on his way to the Reach because.... he feels like it and he wants to get his smithing up to 100 and the easiest way I've found to do this is by smelting a bunch of dwarven metal and spam-smithing dwarven bows. He travelled from Ivarstead to Riverwood then to Whiterun and now he's in Rorikstead. As I said before he left his horse in Whiterun so it can rest and also because I enjoy waking sometimes. He's going to leave Erik in Rorikstead as he wants to travel through the Reach alone. I was looking through his stats and found he has a bounty of about 3000 in the Reach. Ravos is a law-abiding ranger that serves Kynareth/Kyne so I couldn't see why he had such a large bounty on his head. I actually found I'd written about it here Apparently he mis-fired an arrow and hit an innocent bystander then he killed a couple of guards to avoid the penalty When he is in the Reach this time he'll pay off his bounty which is why he wants to go there alone...

Also as usual he killed lots of bandits and even a master vampire during his travels

Yikes on Ravos’s surprise bounty! Leaving Erik behind while Ravos sorts out his legal troubles is a good idea. I’ve found Erik is prone to killing guards during such disputes.

The mute dragon must have been odd. Sounds like a rare random encounter gone not quite right. Neat to have seen it, even if he didn’t hear it!

It must have been a ninja dragon, silent as the wind.

Or maybe it just ate beans before doing in the giant. Silent But Deadly.

OMG, I need a new Shout. BEANS ROH DAH ! !

(Skyrim theme plays in the background)

*Dragon bone clad nordic warrior approaches ancient dragon*

Dragon: You stand no chance against me, mortal.

Nord: Your arrogance will be your downfall dragon, for I have a weapon unlike anything else...

*Unbuttons sword belt and pulls down greaves, turns back to dragon and bends over*

(Whispers) fus... ro... beans...

*dragon is sent flying backwards, shattering the word wall. The mountain begins to shake and an avalanche begins]

[Cut to High Hrothgar]

Arngier: By Kyne, he has done it.

Another Greybeard: Dovahbeans....

[Cut to Whiterun]

*Men, women, guards and children are all running and screaming as the city is enveloped by snow*

[Briefly cut to Winterhold where the college crumbles and falls into the sea]

[Cut to Vvardenfell]

*The sky turns black as the Red Mountain begins to spew ash, dust and even lava*

[Cut to Imperial City]

*More civilians and soldiers running and screaming. This time they are running from the White-Gold Tower as it collapses*

[Cut to Alinor]

*Thalmor officials are seen at a dinner party when all their glasses are tipped as the table begins to shake*

[Cut back to the nordic warrior as he slides down with the avalanche, staying on his feet]

*Close-up of his face as he pulls out sunglasses from a satchel*

"Dovahbeans b*****s!"

[scene fades to black]

-coming to taverns Last Seed, 4e 204-

-A bard college production-

This post has been edited by Vital: Apr 26 2014, 10:04 PM

New fanfic episode: "Riverwood: Recovery, Larellee Muses"

Ravos left Rorikstead feeling rather... apprehensive. He was glad that he had been able to return Erik to Rorikstead in one piece, not everyone returns home after following Ravos on his adventures. However he was headed into the Reach where he had a bounty of 3015 gold on his head. He was hoping to pay the price and resolve the situation civilly. He knew he needed only to walk into a settlement and lift his hood and the guards would be all over him, so that was what he planned to do. He'd left nearly everything of value on Whiterun in case the guards wanted more than just his gold, he'd even left behind his horse and his good bow.

Ravos left Rorikstead and headed towards Old Hroldan via Serpenstone Bluff Redoubt. He took some 'souvenirs' from the deceased Forsworn hoping to prove his goodwill to the Markarth Hold Guards. He knew Old Hroldan was guarded by a single soldier; enough to arrest him and organise his transport to Markarth but one man wouldn't be likely to treat him badly or 'withhold' any of his goods.

Sure enough, upon arrival at Old Hroldan the settlement's lone guard apprehended him and took him to Markarth. He payed off his bounty and left Silver Blood Mine that same day with his inventory untouched. He was now where he wanted to be and a day earlier than he would've been had he had walked. He went to see Calcemo to deliver a dwarven arrow he was after and also solved the Hall of the Dead's cannibal problem.

He's now working to get his smithing up to level 100. Markarth is a great place to do this because of the endless heap of scrap metal in Nchaund-Zel that can be smelted into dwarven ingots. He hired Volstag to help him haul all the metal out of the ruin and currently they've been on two trips and gathered about 180 ingots worth of metal, and they're only about halfway through the dungeon. Ravos has used these ingots to spam-smith dwarven bows and currently his smithing is level 96 with 60 ingots left plus whatever else is in the ruin.

It's very tedious but I want him to wear dragonscale armour for the last few quests of the MQ. Then he'll probably never use it again

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Mycharonna the Ice Witch's mind is not always 'all there', as we can see from her latest journal entry. It's been ages since she's written one. Anyways, she has returned to Anise's Cabin, her first and favorite home. She has brought Shadowmere with her, but has no desire to have this horse around 24/7, so she's going to leave him at Anise's Cabin.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Apr 29 2014, 10:53 PM

Well, Mrs Acadian got me 'Skyrim Legendary Edition' recently so, with some help from friend KC, I got it installed and running. It took some getting used to - especially the magic system - but the more I play it the more I'm getting to quite like it. Been playing it for about 30 hours now and think I'll keep it, along side Oblivion.

I'm playing a 'test' character right now - a Breton ranger named Khan. Just learning how the vanilla game (with all 3 DLC) and command console work at this point. I'm in no hurry to mod it until I get a much better feel for it.

Archery is working well as a primary killing skill but, at this stage, I'm keeping the flexibility and safety of switching to shield plus sword/spell on occasion.

Glad to hear you are enjoying it!

Oh my gosh Acadian, that’s GREAT! Yay for Mrs. Acadian! I’m so glad it seems like a keeper so far.

Welcome to Skyland! Glad you are having fun with the toon you rolled. Hope you beat the game soon.